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Ashoka : the search for India's lost emperor / Charles Allen.
Van Pelt Library DS451.5 .A218 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Charles, 1940-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aśoka, King of Magadha, active 259 B.C.
- Aśoka.
- India--History--To 324 B.C.
- India.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 460 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 The Breaking of Idols 1
- 2 The Golden Column of Firoz Shah 6
- 3 Objects of Enquiry 28
- 4 Enter Alexander 46
- 5 Furious Orientalists 69
- 6 The Long Shadow of Horace Hayman Wilson 96
- 7 Prinsep's Ghat 120
- 8 Thus Spake King Piyadasi 153
- 9 Brian Hodgson's Gift 182
- 10 Records of the Western Regions 202
- 11 Alexander Cunningham the Great 227
- 12 Sir Alexander in Excelsis 251
- 13 Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum 279
- 14 India after Cunningham 303
- 15 Ashoka in the Twentieth Century 331
- 16 The Rise and Fall of Ashokadharma 362.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1468300717
- 9781468300710
- OCLC:
- 811051958
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